PREVIEWS #395 AUGUST 2021 #395
THIS MONTH'S COVER ART: IDW Publishing & Image Comics! THIS MONTH'S THEME: Panel to Screen! PREVIEWS is your ultimate guide to comics, graphic novels and pop-culture merchandise available from your local comic book shop... revealed up to two months in advance! Read detailed product descriptions and storylines for hundreds comic books and graphic novels from the top comic book publishers and see the coolest toys and pop-culture merchandise on Earth! Plus: PREVIEWS Exclusive items you'll find nowhere else! It's a great monthly read to find out what's at comic shops! Each issue includes a download code for a FREE digital edition of this month's PREVIEWS (plus Marvel PREVIEWS and Image Comics)! This August issue features items scheduled to ship in October 2021 and beyond.
PROJECT MK ULTRA HC #1
(W) Scott Sampila (A) Stewart Moore (CA) Stewart Moore
San Francisco, 1971. As the Vietnam War rages, the government wages war at home against the hippy counter-culture. High profile drug trials capture headlines. Seymour Phillips, a headstrong journalist eager to prove himself, discovers key information uncovering a vast drug network. A routine interview leads to a sensational accusation that the man accused of trafficking mass quantities of LSD, works for the CIA. While most Americans were watching Leave it to Beaver and listening to The Everly Brothers, an eclectic group of CIA operatives were spiking each other's coffees with LSD, throwing decadent parties and hiring prostitutes to slip unsuspecting johns drug-laced drinks in order to observe every stoned and kinky moment from behind two-way mirrors. And this was only when they weren't dreaming up the next far reaching "official" application for this new, all-powerful, mind blowing drug - a drug that would ironically fuel the counter-culture over a decade later. Coincidence? Maybe not. "This stuff is terrific and it's obviously a labour of love." David Lloyd, artist, co-creator with Alan Moore of V for Vendetta
PROJECT PATRON #5
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Patrick Piazzalunga (CA) David Talaski
The rebirth of the Patron might've been fake...but the return of his worst enemy is all too real! Now, the Patron's two greatest enemies have returned to ransom the Patron's secret against extinction. Can the Project Patron team do what the Patron couldn't? Can they defeat the monster called Woe and stop Matthew Mammon, a man who crossed time, space and death in the name of profit?
PS ARTBOOKS CLASSIC SCI FI COMICS SOFTEE #3
(W) Various (A) Kurt Schaffenberger (CA) Na
I ask you, where in the solar system would you find a collection of absolute vintage comic gems like these, PS Artbooks Presents Classic Sci-Fi Comics Volume 3 including Destination Moon (1951), Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer (1950), When Worlds Collide (1952), The Man from Planet X (1953), and The Green Planet (1962), all reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comics and absolutely crammed with the cream of 1950's comic book talent including Dick Rockwell, Bob Powell, George Evans, Kurt Schaffenberger, Dick Giordano, and Rocco Mastroserio!
PS ARTBOOKS PLANET COMICS SOFTEE #9
(W) Various (A) George Appel (CA) Na
Collects Fiction House's Planet Comics #25-27, originally published July to November 1943!
PSYCHODRAMA ILLUSTRATED #5
(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez
Medical specialist Dr. Droog's secret files are exposed --- revealing how Fritz, her mother Maria, and Fritz's movie rival, Mila, are all connected, via mysterious facial re-construction! Love and Rockets is not enough to contain the unbridled imagination of Gilbert Hernandez... Delve into the darkest corners of psychodrama.... illustrated!
PSYCHOTIC TP
(W) Jacques Mathis (A) Sylvian Dorange (CA) Sylvian Dorange
A moving autobiographical portrayal of psychosis and mental illness as shown through the experiences and writings of writer-poet Jacques Mathis. Jacques Mathis tells his own story of a megalomaniacal man stuck in a body too small for his ideas. His childhood, spent in a dreary little town in Loraine, France, came to a brutal end at the age of fourteen after he suffered his first episode of psychosis. After that, between repeated visits to psychiatric wards, Mathis has had to find some way to carve out as much of a normal life as possible. With Psychotic, as adapted by the acclaimed graphic novelist Sylvain Dorange, Jacques Mathis gives a candid, inspirational account of his daily life, beginning with the day his disorder was first discovered and covering his many stays in psychiatric hospitals, his sessions with various doctors, his setbacks, and his triumphs.
PUNDERWORLD TP #1
(W) Linda Sejic (A) Linda Sejic (CA) Linda Sejic
Hades and Persephone's love-struck misadventures! The classic tale of Greek mythology, but 100 percent more awkwardly relatable. Hades is the officious, antisocial ruler of the Underworld. Persephone, daughter of Demeter, is an earth goddess of growth and renewal - they've been crushing on each other for the past two centuries. But when a festival (and a little liquid courage) present an opportunity to put an end to their Olympian will-they-won't-they, a meddlesome pantheon and several titanic mis-assumptions threaten to give every god in the sky the wrong impression... and leave their romance dead before it can bloom.
PURSUER TP
Villal Pando has crafted a stunningly beautiful tale of love, loss, and betrayal. Set against the backdrop of the big city during the first half of the 20th century, fans of vintage comics, and noir aesthetics will be drinking up Pando's elegant illustrations in this original graphic novel.
QUEER IN ASIA GN
(W) Seven (A) Seven (CA) Seven
Who is Tian Fushi? A misunderstood manga artist, a depraved citizen of Chinese pornography, a young gay man gone astray in an ultraviolent world, a lost boy out of Peter Pan's Neverland? How will he put the fragments of himself together and discover who he really is? Queer: differing in some way from what is usual or normal; this is definitely the case with this graphic novel. A portrait of a Chinese youth in search of love and meaning. An intimate and striking modern quest for identity.
QUIET THOUGHTS GN
(W) Karen Shangguan (A) Karen Shangguan (CA) Karen Shangguan
Shangguan's warm and lyrical narratives capture fleeting moments and sensations; while her shifting perspectives take in all of existence from the emptiness of space to the intimacy of human interactions. A contemplative journey that explores how it feels to be alive.
QUINTESSENTIAL QUINTUPLETS BOX SET SEASON 1 #1
(W) Negi Haruba (A) Negi Haruba (CA) Negi Haruba
Fandom's favorite fivesome now come bundled together in three four-volume box sets! This deluxe, collectible set includes a huge, exclusive, double-sided poster depicting two of the rambunctious quints. Five girls who want to do anything but study, and their tutor: A high school boy who's got book smarts and not much else. This set includes Volumes 1 through 7 of The Quintessential Quintuplets manga series.
RABID WORLD #4 (OF 4)
(W) Todd Cinani (A) Oleg Okunev
As the remaining crew of the Jibberish face new challenges off the east coast, the people at Ft. Levine prepare for an onslaught. Will the team find a vaccine? Will the fort be overrun? Will the Jibberish find safe harbor? Find out in the thrilling conclusion of the mini series!
RADIANT BLACK #1
3RD PTG
(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Geraldo Borges
For fans of INVINCIBLE and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comes a brand-new ONGOING SERIES from acclaimed writer KYLE HIGGINS (Ultraman, C.O.W.L.) and artist MARCELO COSTA that reinvents superheroes for a new generation! Nathan Burnett has just turned thirty, and things aren't great: He's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move... is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers and unlocks the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes! There's just one problem: The powers don't belong to him. And the COSMIC BEINGS who created them want them back... by any means necessary.
RADIANT BLACK #2
3RD PTG
(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Geraldo Borges
Yesterday: Nathan found an alien artifact that turned him into a superhero. Today? His dad says he has to get a job, so driving for rideshare company Drivr it is. Oh, and there's also someone else out there robbing banks with powers like his. That's probably important.
RADIANT BLACK #3
2ND PTG
(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Cian Tormey
Okay, that's it. Nathan's getting down to business today: he's finally working on his novel. All he needs is some solitary writing time-no "helpful" parents, no superhero social media, and definitely no alien voices beaming an unintelligible language into his brain. That's not too much to ask for, right?
RADIANT BLACK #7
CVR A DI NICUOLO
(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Daniele Di Nicuolo
NEW STORY ARC! Picking up from the shocking ending of issue five, Radiant Black's life just got a whole lot more complicated. Pursued by a new enemy and not sure who to trust, will our hero escape with his life? Or is this the beginning of the end for RADIANT BLACK?
RADIANT BLACK #7
CVR B WATANABE
(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Felipe Watanabe
NEW STORY ARC! Picking up from the shocking ending of issue five, Radiant Black's life just got a whole lot more complicated. Pursued by a new enemy and not sure who to trust, will our hero escape with his life? Or is this the beginning of the end for RADIANT BLACK?
RADIANT BLACK TP #1
(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Marcello Costa
THE MOST ACCLAIMED NEW SERIES OF 2021! Visionary writer KYLE HIGGINS (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ultraman) and artist MARCELO COSTA reinvent super heroes for a new generation! Nathan Burnett has just turned 30, and things aren't great-he's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move...is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes...unless the Cosmic Beings who created them succeed in taking them back by any means necessary. Oh, and did we mention there's a RED RADIANT who wants Nathan dead? The next must-read comic book series STARTS HERE. Collects RADIANT BLACK #1-6.
RADIANT GN #14
(W) Tony Valente (A) Tony Valente
Relentlessly hunted by antagonists known as Domitors, Seth tries to fend off his pursuers and ends up discovering a new and surprising ability! Meanwhile, after being rescued by the alchemist Hurlä and the cheerfully oddball kids of the Droplet Gang, Seth's friends Mélie and Ocoho set out to find him and their other missing friend, Doc, who has been taken in by the Inquisition after being mistaken for a kidnapped child. Unfortunately Doc's lousy luck lets him down even more when he meets up with an old and not at all welcome acquaintance! For teen audiences.
RAGNA CRIMSON GN #3
(W) Daiki Kobayashi (A) Daiki Kobayashi (CA) Hiro Mashima
Humanity lives under the threat of annihilation by immensely powerful dragons. The dragon hunter Ragna embarks on a revenge-fueled quest to eliminate that threat once and for all! Ragna and Crimson infiltrate the royal city of Celesviera in order to strike down the Winged Monarch, Ultimatia. Crimson summons his followers, Golem and Chimera, in order to devise a plan of attack. Meanwhile, Ragna is wandering the city alone and ends up in a chance encounter with Ultimatia! As he faces off against the time-controlling Winged Monarch, he makes a fateful choice!
RAINBOW BRIDGE GN
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Valentina Brancati (CA) Valentina Brancati
What if you got one last adventure with your best friend? Andy and Rocket grew up together, with Rocket serving as Andy's guardian through every one of childhood's ups and downs. So, when Rocket passes away right before Andy's 14th birthday, he's rudderless. He can't imagine making the transition to high school without Rocket at his side. The day before school starts, when Andy is at his lowest, he visits Rocket's grave and unexpect-edly summons the RAINBOW BRIDGE, a gateway to a fantasy world where pets discover their afterlife. But there's a dark shadow to this paradise, and without Andy's help, Rocket's eternity may be grim... The first graphic novel from AfterShock's new YA imprint, Seismic Press, RAINBOW BRIDGE was con-ceived and written by Steve Orlando (PROJECT PATRON, KILL A MAN, Midnighter) and Steve Foxe (Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Grumpy Cat) with art by Valentina Brancati (Les Ravencroft, Ghost Writer). Published in the category standard size of 6.5" x 9.5", this 120-page OGN will resonate with anyone who has ever had to say goodbye to a beloved pet - or who has greeted growing up with nervousness and anxiety.
RANGERS OF THE DIVIDE #4 (OF 4)
(W) Megan Huang (A) Megan Huang (CA) Megan Huang
The cadets come face to face with a powerful new enemy! As the Commander's fears become a reality, a sacrifice must be made-his mission or the lives of those who trusted him.